Over the course of the past 30 years, the need to keep the schools “safe” from drugs and weapons has become a thinly disguised, profit-driven campaign to transform them into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero...
John W. Whitehead
Mile Markers of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms on the Road from 9/11 to COVID-19
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
You can map the nearly 20-year journey from the 9/11 attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic by the freedoms we’ve lost along the way. The road we have been traveling has been littered with the wreckage of our once-vaunted liberties, especially those enshrined in the Fourth...
Since 9/11, the Government’s Answer to Every Problem Has Been More Government
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured Articles
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.”—Anonymous Have you noticed that the government’s answer to every problem is more government—at taxpayer expense—and less individual liberty? The...
P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
While America continues to fixate on the drama-filled reality show scripted by the powers-that-be, directed from the nation’s capital, and played out in high definition across the country, the American Police State has moved steadily forward. Nothing has changed. The...
One Nation Under House Arrest: How Do COVID-19 Mandates Impact Our Freedoms?
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened...
America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 14, 2020 | Featured Articles
“If we confuse dissent with disloyalty—if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox—if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will...
Tyranny Without a Tyrant: The Deep State’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power...
From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency
by John W. Whitehead | May 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation. Pity them because they have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency. They were born...
The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing
by John W. Whitehead | May 13, 2020 | Featured Articles
“The things we were worried would happen are happening.”—Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state....
Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
by John W. Whitehead | May 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
We are fast becoming a nation—nay, a world—of book burners. While on paper, we are technically free to speak—at least according to the US Constitution—in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook,...
COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society?
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured Articles
Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out, more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless (for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce or...
Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”―...
Detect, Deter and Annihilate: How the Police State Will Deal with a Coronavirus Outbreak
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the...
This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During a Nationwide Lockdown?
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
This is a test. This is not a test of our commitment to basic hygiene or disaster preparedness or our ability to come together as a nation in times of crisis, although we’re not doing so well on any of those fronts. No, what is about to unfold over the next few weeks...
Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents,...
Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
“When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join...
A New Kind of Tyranny: The Global State’s War on Those Who Speak Truth to Power
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
“What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence of a new kind of tyranny. The choice is...
Terrorized, Traumatized and Killed: The Police State’s Deadly Toll on America’s Children
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
“‘Am I going to get shot again.’”—2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, 4 and 5, with a bullet in the brain, a fractured skull and gun wounds to the face Children learn what they live. As family counselor Dorothy Law Nolte...
Guns for Hire: No, the Government Shouldn’t Be Using the Military to Police the Globe
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison Eventually, all military empires fall and...
Welfare Checks Turn Deadly: You Might Want to Think Twice Before Calling the Cops
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
“Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement.”—Steve Silberman, The New York Times...
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